List of Belgian historians
This is a list of historians who worked in Belgium and its predecessor states and made contributions to the history of Belgium.
Medieval Belgium
- Heriger of Lobbes (c.925–1007), compiler of the Gesta Episcoporum Leodiensium to 667
- Anselm of Liège (1008–c.1056), continuator of the Gesta Episcoporum Leodiensium from 667 to 1048
- Sigebert of Gembloux (c.1030–1112), author of Chronicon sive Chronographia and Gesta abbatum Gemblacensium
- Anselm of Gembloux (died 1136), continuator of Sigebert of Gembloux's Chronicon
- Renier of St Laurent (died 1188), author of Triumphale Bulonicum on the siege of Bouillon Castle, 1141
- Lambert of Ardres (fl. 1194–1203), author of Historia comitum Ghisnensium
- Giles of Orval, continuator of the Gesta episcoporum Leodiensium from 1048 to 1247
- Jacob van Maerlant (1230/40–1288/99), author of a world chronicle, the Spiegel Historiael
- Jan van Heelu (13th century), author of a Rymkronyk of the 1288 Battle of Worringen
- Jean de Hocsem (1278–1348), continuator of the Gesta episcoporum Leodiensium from 1247 to 1347
- Jan van Boendale (c.1280–c.1351), author of Brabantsche yeesten and Van den derden Eduwaert (an account of the 1340 Siege of Tournai)
- Jacques de Guyse (1334−1399), author of Annales Historiae Illustrium Principum Hannoniae (Annals of Hainaut)
- Jean d'Outremeuse (1338–1400), author of La Geste de Liége and Ly Myreur des Histors
- Jean de Stavelot[1]
- Gilles li Muisis[1]
- Edmond de Dynter, author of Chronica ducum Lotharingiae et Brabantiae[1]
- Jean Mansel[1]
- Jean d'Enghien[1]
- Jean de Haynin[1]
- Jacques de Hemricourt (1333–1403), author of the Miroir des nobles de Hesbaye
- Guillaume de Vottem (died 1403), author of a chronicle of Liège
- Jean Froissart (c.1337–c.1405), author of a chronicle of the opening decades of the Hundred Years' War
- Enguerrand de Monstrelet (c.1400–1453), author of a chronicle of the later decades of the Hundred Years' War
- Georges Chastellain (died 1475), author of a chronicle of the period 1417–1474
- Olivier de la Marche (1425–1502), memoirist and chronicler of the Burgundian Netherlands
- Jean Molinet (1435–1507), author of La complainte de Grece
Early-modern Belgium
- Filips Wielant (1440/1–1520), author of Recueil des Antiquités de Flandre
- Remi du Puys (active 1511–1515)[1]
- Cornelius Grapheus (1482–1558)
- Adrianus Barlandus (1486–1538)
- Melchior Barlaeus (died 1540)[1]
- Jacobus Lessabaeus (died 1557)[1]
- Jacobus Meyerus (1491–1552)[1]
- Hubertus Thomas (c.1495–1555)[1]
- Joos de Damhouder (1507–1581)
- Marcus van Vaernewyck (1518–1569), author of Van die beroerlicke tijden in die Nederlanden en voornamelick in Ghendt 1566-1568 and De historie van Belgis
- Johannes Goropius Becanus (1519–1572)
- Lodovico Guicciardini (1521–1589)
- Joannes Molanus (1533–1585)
- Petrus Divaeus (1535–1581)
- Jacobus Marchantius (1537–1609), author of De rebus gestis à Flandriae comitibus (1557) and Flandria commentariorum (1596)
- Justus Lipsius (1547–1606)
- Floris Van der Haer (1547–1634)
- Guillaume Gazet (1554–1612)
- Franciscus Haraeus (1555?–1631)
- Adriaan van Meerbeeck (1563–1627)
- Ferry de Locre (1571–1614)
- Aubertus Miraeus (1573–1640)
- Erycius Puteanus (1574–1646)
- Jean-Baptiste Gramaye (1579–1635)
- Nicolaus Vernulaeus (1583–1649)
- Antonius Sanderus (1586–1664), author of Flandria Illustrata (1641)
- Gaspar Gevartius (1593–1666)
- Charles de Visch (1596–1666)
- Martin Valvekens (1604–1682)
Kingdom of Belgium
19th century
- Sylvain Balau
- Stanislas Bormans
- Victor Coremans
- Louis Prosper Gachard
- Arthur Gaillard
- Théodore Juste
- Godefroid Kurth
- Joseph Kervyn de Lettenhove
- Philippe Kervyn de Volkaersbeke
- Charles Moeller
- Jean Moeller
- P. F. X. de Ram
- Frédéric Auguste Ferdinand Thomas de Reiffenberg
- Alphonse-Jules Wauters
- G. Henry Wouters, author of Historiae ecclesiasticae compendium (3 vols., 1842–1843); Dissertationes in selecta historiae ecclesiasticae capita (4 vols., 1868–1872)
20th century
- Stephanus Axters (Church history)
- Ursmer Berlière (Church history)
- Wim Blockmans (medievalist)
- Wilfrid Brulez (economic history)
- Patricia Carson (medievalist)
- Alfred Cauchie (Church history)
- Lucien Ceyssens (Church history)
- Hilde De Ridder-Symoens (university history)
- Arthur De Schrevel (Church history)
- Marie de Villermont (women's history)
- François-Louis Ganshof (medievalist)
- Léopold Genicot (medievalist)
- Léon-Ernest Halkin (Church history)
- Karl Hanquet (medievalist)
- Félix Magnette (18th and 19th centuries)
- Jules Mees (historical geography)
- Jos Monballyu[2][3]
- Anne Morelli (history of migration)
- Henri Pirenne (medievalist)
- Walter Prevenier[4]
- Jan Roegiers (intellectual historian)
- Félix Rousseau (medievalist)
- Aloïs Simon (Church history)
- Jean Stengers (colonial history)
- Egied-Idesbald Strubbe[5]
- Charles Terlinden
- Raoul Van Caenegem (medievalist)
- Leon van der Essen
- Herman Van der Wee (economic historian)
- Charles Verlinden (medievalist)
- Lode Wils[6][7]
21st century
- Hans Cools (early-modern history)
- Sophie De Schaepdrijver (20th-century history)
- Dirk Imhof (book history)
- Randall Lesaffer (legal history)
- Brigitte Meijns (medievalist)
Art historians
Literary historians
Historians of philosophy
References
- L'Historiographie en Belgique, exhibition catalogue (Brussels, 1935)
- https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20130927_00763008
- https://www.hln.be/in-de-buurt/nieuwpoort/-de-heksen-en-hun-buren-in-boek~a30aa8f2/
- https://www.demorgen.be/nieuws/dit-is-het-meest-vrije-beroep-ter-wereld-walter-prevenier~b44af58c/
- https://www.persee.fr/doc/bcrh_0001-415x_1984_num_150_1_1230
- https://www.knack.be/nieuws/belgie/historicus-lode-wils-ik-voorzie-dat-belgie-uit-elkaar-valt/article-longread-1485599.html
- http://www.cegesoma.be/docs/media/chtp_beg/chtp_22/chtp22_007_Kroniek_DeWever.pdf
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